Graham Plattner

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438 appearances 36 recordings 15 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 10 Jul

Graham Plattner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 36 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 19.

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The David Pakman Show · ICE agents in trouble as under the bus goes Bovino · 29 Jan 2026 podcast

and really focused around the concept of building representative power that isn't beholden to corporate interests, that isn't in bed with large donors and like all the things that, we could come up with examples all day long, but of that kind of, matched

political power structure that people have seen for years not represent them and in many ways exploit them and all for the benefit of the ultra rich and the ultra powerful. matched

I think that's part of it. matched

The big one, though, is that the problem with that kind of politics is it's so divorced from reality, from material realities with people, that it essentially tells people that what they are experiencing or what they're seeing with their own eyes isn't happening. matched

And people just don't believe it. matched

I mean, when you're being told that the economy is doing well, matched

When you're being told that GDP is high, unemployment is low, everything is good. matched

Meanwhile, people are working three jobs just to afford their rent, which makes up 50% of their monthly income. matched

That doesn't work. matched

I also think it goes to foreign policy stuff as well. matched

When people are told that what's happening in Gaza isn't happening, but everybody opens their phones and sees it, it's hard for folks to be like, what are you going to tell me? matched

Not to believe my own lying eyes? matched

Not to believe my own material reality? matched

That, I think, was one of the reasons I think Donald Trump has been so successful. matched

is that in some way, he tells people that the thing that they know is true is true, which is that they are living in a system that is screwing them, that somebody somewhere is stealing from them and that they need to be blamed. matched

Now, of course, we know that Donald Trump and right-wing populism don't actually give answers to that. matched

But I think people can be very forgiving of a lot of other things if they are told that at least foundationally, matched

The thing they know in their bones is happening when you tell them it actually is. matched

And the other side is telling you, oh, no, things are great. matched

People respond negatively, which I think is one of the major reasons that Democrats lost in 24. matched

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